Minutes from 4 August 2009

2009/08/04 CSEP Meeting

Attendees: Jeremy Z., John Y., Masha L.

1. csep-op:
   1. V9.7.0 release:
      • Re-processing of California's one-day and RELM forecasts groups due to the ANSS catalog fixes
        1. No NFS server crashes since July 26, 2009
      • New forecasts groups:
        1. California's three-months-alarm-models-V9.7 with EAST model from Peter Shebalin
           • Forecast with start date of 2009/07/01 is generated
        2. Global one-day-models-V9.7 with Kagan-Jackson one-day model using CMT catalog:
           • Forecasts are being generated and evaluated
2. Software development:
   1. Masha is working on re-implementation of Matlab evaluation tests in Python
      • Re-wrote forecast and catalog preparation routines used by evaluation tests in Python
      • Working on N-test
      • Posted a message to the numpy-discussion list: getting an exception from scipy.stats.poisson.ppf() function
3. mini_CSEP distribution
   • Jeremy circulated an initial list of requirments within CSEP development team, will forward to community for feedback:
     • Jeremy asked if catalog declustering could be added to requirements
       1. Masha mentioned that CSEP is using Matlab code for declustering
       2. Jeremy will add as an optional requirement
     • Requirements:
       * convert a ForecastML forecast to MATLAB format
       * convert a MATLAB forecast to ForecastML format
       * generate a plot of the spatial distribution of the forecast (i.e.,
       map-view of the forecast)
       * generate a plot of the magnitude distribution of the forecast (i.e.,
       magnitude versus normalized probability--I have attached an example )
       * execute an L-test (including appropriate plot)
       * execute an M-test (including appropriate plot)
       * execute an N-test (including appropriate plot)
       * execute an R-test (including appropriate plot)
       * execute an S-test (including appropriate plot)
   • We should provide list of external package dependencies and links to these package
   • May have an intermediate release when distribution is ready
4. Jeremy reported that an updated version of the manuscript for ACES publication is ready for submission
5. CSEP paper for EScience Conference
   1. Masha will ask Phil if we should pursue (submission deadline might be over)
6. SCEC Annual Meeting:
   1. Phil suggested to submit poster abstract for software/system and science
      • Masha will work on software/system abstract
      • Masha will ask Danijel to author science abstract
7. Masha will attend SciPy conference at Caltech August 18-23, 2009
8. CSEP proposal:
   • Jeremy mentioned that Danijel and Dave Jackson are working on proposal
9. Hardware:
   1. csep-cert
      • CSEPWebTest.py is not part of nightly build - some issues connecting to the web server
        1. John will look at the problem